Charles warren



(No Model.)

0. WARREN. MACHINE FOR MASHING POTATOES, 8w.

PatentedMaJr. 12, 1889.

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CHARLES YVARREN, OF IPSIVIGH, COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, ENGLAND.

MACH I N E F0 R MASH I NG POTATOES, 84 0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,587, dated March 12, 1889.

Application filed December 22,1887. 7 Serial No. 258,702. (No model.) Patented in England October 29, 1887, No.14=,722; in France February 7, 1888,No. 188,596, and in Belgium February 7, 1888, No. 80,559.

f0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES WARREN, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Ipswich, in the county of Suffolk, England, have invented a new and useful Improved Machine for hilashin g Potatoes and Orumbli n g Bread and for Similar Purposes, (Letters Patcut for which were granted me in Great Britain October 29, 1887, numbered 14,722; in France February 7, 1888, numbered 188,596, and in Belgium February 7, 1888, numbered 80,559,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to machines for mashing potatoes and other vegetables and for crumbling bread; and it consists in a certain improved construction of the same, fully set forth in the following specification and claim.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure l is a front elevation of my improved machine. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on line :0, Fig. 1.

Similar reference-letters indicate identical parts throughout.

Ct is the barrel or cylinder of the machine, in which is located a spiral compressor, I), mounted upon a shaft, (2, which is journaled in a bearing, (1, at one end of the barrel. The outer extremity of the shaft 0 is provided with a handle, 9, by which the compressor is rotated.

The barrel a is supported by a standard, e, and. is provided with a hopper, f, through which the material to be operated upon is in troduced into the machine. The bearing, standard, and hopper are preferably formed integral with the barrel.

dis a disk of wire-gauze or other suitable material secured to a ring, it, which surrounds the cylinder. To hold this disk in position,l

provide a ring, j, which alsoeneircles the cylinder, and has a flange, j, extending over the end of the cylinder for the purpose of clamping the disk i. The disk j is provided with slotted ears n, which receive swivel-bolts I, attached to the cylinder, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. To fasten the disk over the mouth of the cylinder, the ring 7a, to which the wire disk is attached,is placed in position and the ring j placed over it. The bolts 1 are then slipped into the slotted ears or and the nuts m screwed down until they rest upon the liangej. A further turning of the nuts forces the rings and It inward upon the cylinder and stretches the wire tightly across the mouth of the cylinder, in which condition it is firmly seen red by the flange j, clamping it against the cylinder. By this means I secure what might be termed a drum-head tension, which is very desirable in a machine of this charactenas it is necessary that the wire-gauze should be drawn very tightly across the mouth of the cylinder to insure the best results.

It will be seen that the forcing of the ring 7c inward upon the cylinder stretches the wire before it clamped in position.

hat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a machine for mashing vegetables and other substances, the combination, with the barrel or cylinder a, of the wire-gauze provided with a ring, 7:, extending around the cylinder, of the ringj, also extending around the cylinder, having a flange, J, extending over the end of the cylinder and being provided with slotted ears, and the swivel-bolts secured to the cylinder and adapted to engage the slotted ears, whereby the wire-gauze is stretched tightly across the end of the cylinder and clamped, substantially as described.

CHARLES WARREN. lVitnesses:

G. F. R-EDFERN, J OHN E. BONSFIELD. 

